Ernie Davis and JFK: More than 50 years ago, key figures in another D.C. football time of change

Posted Sep 1, 2014
The image, from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, remains a haunting symbol of lost youth and vitality: President John F. Kennedy, in December of 1961, clasps hands with Ernie Davis, a Syracuse University football great and the first African-American to ever win football's Heisman Trophy. (Syracuse Post-Standard)

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